Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Crannog
Esker South, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Esker South
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.90358, -7.92188
- SMR number
- LE032-087----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located at the S end of Cloonfinnan Lough, a subrectangular lake (max. dims c. 700m NNW-SSE; c. 400m ENE-WSW) represented as slightly larger (max. dims c. 770m NNW-SSE; c. 425m ENE-WSW) on the 1835 edition of the OS 6-inch map. This is an overgrown circular island (diam. 33m; H 1.75m) surrounded in the water by lines of timber uprights and wattle bedding which are best preserved W-NNE. There is a quernstone in the interior.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Amended: 6 December 2019
Nearby in the register
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Sweathouseunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.